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Teen says classmates at Southwest Early College Campus raped her at school

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Updated: 5:18 PM CDT Sep 1, 2013

Girl, 17, says school assault wasn't the first

Teen says classmates at Southwest Early College Campus raped her at school

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Updated: 5:18 PM CDT Sep 1, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

A police report detailing allegations that two teenage boys raped a schoolmate at Kansas City's Southwest Early College Campus on Thursday offers new details about the accuser's story.

The 17-year-old accuser said she had walked a friend to the school's cafeteria when the boys approached her and asked her to come over. The girl said that when she refused, the boys grabbed her and carried her to a small room near the auditorium stage where the attack took place.

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The accuser said one of the two teenagers left the room and the other one raped her. The accuser said she told her girlfriend about it afterward, and then she and her friend reported the incident to a school counselor.

The accuser's friend told the school that the accuser had been assaulted a couple of weeks earlier but didn't report the incident. She said one of the two boys who attacked her on Thursday had been responsible for the previous attack.

A 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy have been held at the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Center.

Kansas City Public Schools said it “places the highest value on the health and safety of its students and is proactively working with authorities to resolve this matter.”

Sherry Brown, a parent of a student at Southwest Early College Campus, said it makes her question how safe the school is.

"I think it's a really sad situation when a parent sends their child to school that, in their mind, they think their child is supposed to be safe," Brown said.

After reporting what had happened to her, the accuser was taken to St. Luke's Hospital for an examination.